Leptomyrmecini
Leptomyrmecini | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini Emery, 1913 |
Type genus | |
Leptomyrmex | |
Diversity | |
16 genera 422 species 5 fossil genera 10 fossil species | |
Synonyms | |
Identification
List of Genera
Extant Genera
Anillidris • Anonychomyrma • Azteca • Doleromyrma • Dorymyrmex • Forelius • Froggattella • Gracilidris • Iridomyrmex • Leptomyrmex • Linepithema • Nebothriomyrmex • Ochetellus • Papyrius • Philidris • Turneria
Fossil Genera
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- LEPTOMYRMECINI [tribe of Dolichoderinae]
- Leptomyrmicini Emery, 1913a: 15. Type-genus: Leptomyrmex Mayr, 1862: 652.
Taxonomic History
- Leptomyrmecini as junior synonym of Dolichoderinae: Shattuck, 1992c: 5; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 2003: 19, 81.
- Leptomyrmecini as tribe of Dolichoderinae: Emery, 1913a: 15 [Leptomyrmicini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1915d: 262 [Leptomyrmicii]; Forel, 1917: 247; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 687; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 258 [Leptomyrmecini]; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 17; Ward, et al. 2010: 361.
- Leptomyrmecini as senior synonym of Anonychomyrmini, Iridomyrmecini, Iridomyrmecina: Ward, et al. 2010: 361 [by implication, because their type-genera included in Leptomyrmecini].